[Tutor] IMAP Help

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, "Timothy M. Brauch" <tbrauch@mindless.com> wrote:
> Okay, this seemed like something I could have done on my own, but I failed 
> miserably.  What I want to do is check an IMAP mailbox and see if I have 
> any new mail.  If I do, I just want to know, if not, then I want it to 
> check again in 15 minutes (or 30, or 60 or whatever).
> 
> My problem is in using imaplib.  I can't figure out what I'm suppose to do.
> 
> I've tried
> 
> Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import imaplib
> >>> imaplib.IMAP4('mail.centre.edu')
> <imaplib.IMAP4 instance at 00B596FC>
> >>> 
> 
> But, where do I go from here?  If I can figure out how to do it using 
> command line, then I can write a program that will check it.  But, I can't 
> figure out what to do on the command line.  I don't want to read the mail 
> or get the subject lines (although, that might be a good idea also), I just 
> want to know if I have mail.

You have an IMAP4 object instance, but haven't bound it to a variable so
it's gone again.

Try

>>> x = imaplib.IMAP4("mail.centre.edu")
>>> print x.__doc__

To get some information about the object.

Also, check the library documentation!

IMAP4 objects and their methods are explained in
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/imap4-objects.html

And there is a tiny example in
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/imap4-example.html

-- 
Remco Gerlich